Shojiro Nishio
| Shojiro Nishio | |
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| Nationality | Japanese |
| Fields | Data engineering |
| Institutions | Osaka University |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University |
| Notable awards | Purple Ribbon Medals of Honor (Japan) |
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Shojiro Nishio (西尾 章治郎? Nishio Shōjirō) is a Japanese computer scientist. He is the president of Osaka University.
Nishio was a student at Kyoto University. He earned the Bachelor of Engineering in 1975, Master of Engineering in 1977, and Ph.D. in engineering in 1980. He was successively a faculty member at Kyoto University, a guest assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, a guest fellow at the Research Institute for High-degree Systems of British Columbia, and an assistant professor at Osaka University; he became a full professor in 1992. He was made a Distinguished Professor of the university in 2013.
Nishio has made contributions to data engineering, particularly to deductive and object-oriented databases, to knowledge discovery and to database system architecture for broadband networks and mobile computing environments. He is the co-author or co-editor of more than 50 books and more than 600 referred journal or conference papers on his research fields.
Nishio received an Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2001, and from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology in 2004. He received a Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) in 2010, from the Database Society of Japan in 2010, and from the IEICE in 2013.
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